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Boy Attempts Murder
with Valentine CandyAn investigative report by Mason Bayer
Pinkney County, Fla –
A missing sixteen year old boy is wanted for questioning in what Pinkney County Authorities are calling “a potential Valentines Day Massacre”. Craig T. Thurman, a student at Pinkney County High School is the lead suspect in the near deaths of 6 of his classmates, girls who, his friends say, rejected his Valentine date offer. After receiving the candy hearts so popular this time of year, each thought it was a peace offering Thurman made, and unbeknownst to his classmates, had poisoned them. Along with the candies, Thurman left behind a cassette with a song he wrote for the school band and dedicated the song to each of the girls.“We thought he was really sweet for doing what he did,” Alexia Kincaid said of the reclusive Thurman. “When Madelyn got the candies, she even said she felt bad about turning him down.”
Alexia and several other students of Pinkney County High are being questioned as to the whereabouts of Thurman. No one has seen him since the day the candies were mysteriously left on the victims’ desks.
Madelyn Strite, one of the six victims, is currently in Pinkney County hospital and is listed in stable condition after two days of intensive care. Her mother noticed something was wrong with her daughter when she sat down to eat looking sickly and pale. When Madelyn fainted at the dinner table, she was rushed to the hospital where doctors found strychnine and LSD in her bloodstream. Later that evening, five more girls were admitted and it was unclear how many more had been given the poisoned candy.“I’m not surprised, really,” said Alexia. “He was always a little strange.”
Coincidentally, Alexia shares a chemistry class with Thurman where they are studying the effects of certain poisons on rats. When asked if she thinks Thurman got the idea in class, Alexia responded by saying the class probably opened the mind of a psychopath.
Thurman is currently at large and it is unclear as to where he might be staying. Authorities are currently conducting a search through his e-mails and analyzing the lyrics to song in the cassette he left the victims hoping it will lead to clues as to his whereabouts.
Though his family was not available for comment, Tales from the Moonlit Path was granted permission to publish the cassette's recording.
If you have any information as to the whereabouts of Craig T. Thurman, we ask that you contact Pinkney County Authorities immediately.
Click here to listen to the cassette's recording.
© Bayer, 2006